UN pleads for Equatorial Guinea not to send US asylum seekers to their home countries: ‘Their life would be in danger’
Human rights experts make rare public appeal as US deportees describe being held in ‘prison-like’ conditions
Human rights experts at the United Nations issued a rare public appeal to Equatorial Guinea, urging the central African country to halt its plans to return US deportees to their home countries, where they face political violence, torture and death.
The statement, co-signed by a representative of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, adds diplomatic pressure on Equatorial Guinea, one of the world’s most repressive regimes, to comply with international human rights standards and avoid refoulement, or the expulsion of people to countries where they face persecution.
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Basically human rights experts make rare public appeal as US deportees describe being held in ‘prison-like’. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
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Still waiting to hear what Equatorial Guinea actually plans to do about it.
Equatorial Guinea has been pushing this agenda for a while now.